Visual Arts

Beatriz da Costa

Interdisciplinary Artist, Tactical Media Practitioner
Beatriz da Costa was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Continuous Bodies Conference at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2007. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Beatriz da Costa (1974 – 2012) was an interdisciplinary artist and tactical media practitioner working at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering, and politics. Her work takes the form of public participatory interventions, locative media, conceptual tool building, and critical writing. Issues addressed in her work include the...

Michael Creedon

Teacher, Fine Art Photographer, Digital Imaging Consultant
Michael Creedon was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Michael Creedon is a Fine Art Photographer and Digital Printer. He was an instructor of Digital and Film Based Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2001 through 2012. Since 1984 he has documented the Mission Bay Area of San Francisco, showing how this 300 acre site has slowly evolved over the past 25 years...

Brett Cook

Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator
Brett Cook gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 6, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His public projects often involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy along with contemplative practices, performance, and food to create a fluid boundary between art making, daily life, and healing.

Teaching and public speaking are extensions of...

Tiffany Chung

Multimedia Artist
Tiffany Chung gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 3, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tiffany Chung is globally noted for her interdisciplinary and research-based practice consisting of hand-drawn and embroidered cartographic works, paintings, photographs, sculptures, texts, and videos. Chung’s artistic praxis reflects her intellectual inquiries into a complex framework of social, political, economic and environmental processes, at times entwined in landscape archaeology and historical...

Susanne Cockrell

Artist, Educator
Susanne Cockrell was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Susanne Cockrell is an artist and educator who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her social and documentary projects consider the ways people live into specific places over time, amplifying the emergent choreography of landscape, shared experience, and participatory actions in shaping collective and civic life. Early...

Phillip Cash Cash

ARC Fellow, Scholar, Artist, Writer, and Traditional Healer
Phillip Cash Cash was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – he was chosen in the Community Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Phillip Cash Cash is a niimíipuu (Nez Perce)/weyíiletpuu (Cayuse...

Julia Bryan-Wilson

Former ARC Director, Professor & Scholar of Modern and Contemporary Art
History of Art
If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Julia Bryan-Wilson's research interests include feminist and queer theory, theories of artistic labor, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of four books: Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009, named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Artforum); Art in the Making: Artists...

Bull.Miletic

Collaborative Artistic Pair Focused on Media Installations
Bull.Miletic gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Bull.Miletic is a collaborative artistic duo comprised of Synne Tollerud Bull and Dragan Miletic. Through their award-winning media installations, Bull.Miletic focus on the transformative effects of media technologies and the way they infiltrate and take effect in the physical environment of everyday life. Bull.Miletic have shown internationally at venues including Venice Biennale, California Biennial...

Tania Bruguera

Artist, Activist
Tania Bruguera was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Spiraling Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba. Bruguera, a politically motivated performance artist, explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the social effects of political and economic power. By creating proposals and aesthetic models for others to use and adapt, she defines herself as an initiator...

reelaviolette botts-ward

Poetry and the Senses Fellow and Postdoctoral Scholar in American Studies at UC Davis
reelaviolette was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

reelaviolette botts-ward is a homegirl, an educator, and a nontraditional multimedia artist from Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora Studies researching Black women’s healing spaces in Oakland. ree centers “everyday round the way Blackgirl methodology” to theorize creative innovation in the wake of displacement....